Improvement in corn-planters



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Corn-Planter.

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N. PETERS. PMOmLITHOGRAPHER, WASNINGTQN. D. C.

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BENJAMIN KING, or JoNEsBUEe, MISSOURI.

IMPROVEMEN'l IN CORN-PLANTERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 169,176, dated October 26, 1875; application led I March 1-1, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known4 that I, BENJAMIN KING, of J onesburg,

useful Improvement in Corn-Planters, which improvement is fully set forth in the following specification, reference being had to theaecompanying drawings, in which- Figure l is a vertical cross-section of the machine; Fig. 2, a longitudinal vertical section; Fig. 3, a transverse vertical section, in rear of the hopper, through the seed-spouts.

My invention relates to that class of Inachines in which two rows of corn are planted at the same time; and consist-s in the combination of a single hopper or seed-box, a reciprocating feed device, and operating mechanism for delivering the kernels of corn into ltwo converging spouts, which discharge it into two parallel fui-rows, and two sets ot' plows for forming the furrows and covering the same after the corn is discharged therein, all as hereinafter more fully described.

A A in the drawings are two plows secured to the front frame of the machine, and which ferm the two parallell furrows in which the corn is to be planted. K is the hopper or seed-box, .arranged on top and over the front center of the machine, and is provided with an opening, a, in the bottom thereof, through which the kernels of corn are delivered into two openings, c e, in a reciprocating slide, E, when said slide is moved forward, so that the openings therein come under theopening in the hopper. This slide is moved forward by the'arnis c on the revolving wheel C, which come successively in contact with an anti-friction roller, D, on the rear end of the slide E, and the slide is returned to its original position by a spring', d, as soon as it is released from contact with one of the arms c on the wheel, which brings the openings c c directly over the mouths ofthe two converging spouts F F', and into which the kernels of corn pass,

in the county of Montgomery and i State of Missouri, have invented a new and Aand are discharged therefrom into the two furrows just back of the two plows which form the furrows. 'The furrows are then covered by two plows, B2 B2, secured to the frame of the machine justin rear of the discharge-openings in the converging spouts, as clearly shown in the drawings. The kernels of corn are prevented from falling through the openings in the slide until they come over the mouths of the two converging spouts by a bottom board, H, in close proximity to and over which the slide moves. The distance apart of the hills of corn-to be planted is regulated by increasing or decreasing thel number of arms c upon the wheel C, which operate the slide.

The operation of the' machine is obvious from the foregoing description. The wheel G, being secured to the axle, is operated through the medium of the traction-wheels upon which zthemachine is mounted.

I am aware that machines are common in this class having two hoppers, each being provided with a reciprocating feeding device for planting two rows of corn, and also a single hopper divided into compartments for the reception of different kinds of seed with con-` verging spouts, and such I do not desire to claim broadly as my invention 5v but What I do claim isy The combination, in a corn-planter, ot' the hopper or seed-box K, reciprocating feed-slide E, having tw openings, c c, spring d, and driving mechanism, converging dischargespouts F F', and plows A A and B2 B2, the several parts being constructed and arranged to operate substantially in the manner herein shown aud described.

h, BENJAMIN KING.

mark. Witnesses:

C. M. HINES, J. M. WILsoN. 

